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Acts 7:16

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and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

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Acts 7:16 mentions Babylon, Canaan, Chaldea, Egypt, Haran, Mesopotamia, Midian, Nile and Shechem.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Canaan · Bahnfrend
Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.
Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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